The Offseason Begins
Jerry, meet adversity. Adversity, meet Jerry. Now that we've got the intros out of the way, it's time for Jerry Reese, the owners and Tom Coughlin to start fixing things. First things first, it's time to fire a coordinator or three, and then it might be time to wave goodbye to some other coaches. Then they'll need to find replacements, and not just replacements, but upgrades. They can take their time with cutting players. Here's why: 2010 is looking like an uncapped year, and as soon as that's official we can dump any deal we want with no repercussions, so we might as well wait. The bad thing about the uncapped year is the Washington and Dallas who are cashflushed already from their stadiums can both get out of salary hell and start offering huge bonuses. Hopefully, the Giants will be able to come up with enough cash to get the players they want this offseason but it's gonna be tough.I don't really have a plan for this yet, I'm waiting to see who gets fired first, and then we can start looking at what should be done. They should be able to reload and get right back in the thick of things with good hires and an effective offseason. Go Giants!
posted by Kalel9 @ 1:18 PM
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I don't have any confidence in Coughlin to fix things. He hired Hufnagel, Gilbride, Lewis, and Sheridan.
Yes, he had a magical run that ended in a SB, and he gets credit for that, but I put the emphasis on the word magical.
I think he should retire.
Reese needs to have his very best year of decision making because there is so much to address. If Jerry is as good as our perception of him, he will already be working on a get well plan. He cannot make one mistake with coaches or personnel or we will end up in mediocrity hell and will waste years with our elite QB looking average like today. Rich, he needs to take a hard look at Coughlin because we cannot waste one year in our rebuild back to prominence.
in the words of Francesa back the truck up!
If TC is stubborn enough not to fire Sheridan, that should tell Ownership all they need. Like the old addage in baseball you rather get rid of someone too early, then too late. I know it wont happen, but if the Giants fired TC I would not be upset.. Rich makes an excellent point about the TC hires. I will add that the Huf and Lewis firings were forced upon him or he himself would go..
Sheridann's gonna get fired. That's the least of our worries. Fortunately it looks like our picks will be in the teens for a change and not the late 20's, and that should really help.
But Gilbride probably won't be.
Coughlin, to the best of my knowledge, has never hired the young (late 20s/early 30s), brilliant offensive and defensive rising coaching stars like Belichick has. That speaks volumes.
I don't know if it speaks volumes. None of those "brilliant" guys be they young or old has been particularly brilliant away from Belichick. The reasons why may fill 1 volume.
Meanwhile, I realize they won't fire Gilbride, and my only hope there is that some college team wants him.
I'm more concerned with the defense than with Gilbride. I think Eli can offset some of Gilbride's playcalling with his audibles. Great Giants teams were built on running the football and defense and we didn't do either very well this year. We need a housecleaning on the defensive side of the organization.
I agree with you Phil, that Gilbride needs to go, but likely wont. We need to clean sweep, and rebuild parts of the foundation. Cosmetic changes won't address the problem, and could set us back some years. Jerry and ownership need to get this right, on all levels.
Phil
Whether not they do well away from Belichick isn't my point. It's that they are innovative and sought after.
Coughlin specializes in safe and staid, except for Spags. That's what speaks volumes.
one saving grace for the Giants might be that Dallas is hamstrung from signing players due to this collective barganing language that the top 12 teams I believe can only sign players of equal or lesser contracts I believe? maybe you can clear that up
my mistake, the final 8 teams can only sign an equal number of free agents lost, but this still at least will be something to slow down the cowboys
Rich,
But what may be seen as their brilliance may just be another face of Belichick's. I wonder if it's easier to do that when you are a head coach from the defensive side of the ball who believes he might as well go for some fireworks on O, cause he believes so much in his own D.
One last point on Gilbride: iirc, he was the person who chose to go for the FG instead of the TD in the game v. San Diego. That alone should be a fireable offense. They need an OC who can create an environment that will enable Eli to be the top three QB that he has the ability to be, not one whose mistakes Eli can overcome.
As for the DC, if Coughlin gets his way, it will probably be Giunta, his second choice. He's old and non-threatening.
If Reese and ownership gives Coughlin that kind of power, it's on them.
Phil
Maybe, or alternatively, they could be great minds who either couldn't lead on their own, or were given head coaching jobs before they were ready (that's definitely Mangini).
In either case, I think they bring the best out of a head coach with outside of the box thinking.
I think that's what Spags did despite his relatively advanced age.
What Spags did was just import Jimmy Johnson's D, adapt it to the players on hand, and show a really good feel for managing the game.
Gilbride definitely cost us the SD game and I feel like he also cost us the second Philly game.
Phil -
You were very much in favor of hiring Sheridan. In your opinion, how come he couldn't make the transition to DC? Was it communication skills?
aim,
I think the D was addicted to Spags emotionalism, while Sheridan is a remote. And I think when that happens, they don't hear you unless you're emotional. Make sense? Sheridan's preference was to coach in the booth. TC and the players wanted him on the field. It's not Sheridan's fault that he's not as emotional as Spags, but that seems to have been the "communication" problem. With another team that let's him work in the booth, maybe he'd be more successful. Who knows? We can't play the season over with him in the booth.
I was surprised Coughlin wouldn't allow Sheridan to work from the booth once the defense started getting shredded on a weekly basis.
I was a little puzzled by that, too, but the players may have been hoping he'd "get it" faster if he was down on the sidelines with them. Hard to even speculate, though.
NJ_Giants
So basically, after #NYJ close this out, per my calculations (and a few others) #NYG will have 15th pick in April's draft.
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